Having a disjunct set of packages for every nvidia driver series has served us well in my opinion. So this should be continued. A slight change I would prefer is a det of common metapackages. Those would control which driver gets chosen for install. Basically this could match the linux-kernel package scheme. So there could be a metapackage for old-legacy, legacy, longterm, stable and beta. (supporting drivers which don't work with the system's xorg-server isn't possible) There should be no need for transitional packages in the driver package itself. This would preserve all available driver series to roll back to if needed.
I am in favor of introducing a commonly trusted (non-virtualized) PPA which is able to build for all architectures like it is done by the linux-kernel or mozilla-security team. This PPA could be promoted by some mentioned technical websites to encourage users to test the provided driver versions. Regards, Rico https://launchpad.net/~ricotz https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=nvidia
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